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The Search for Justice in a Media Age
- Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
Engelsk Paperback
The Search for Justice in a Media Age
- Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward
Engelsk Paperback

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What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute to a collective understanding of class, nation, race and gender? In this book, Siobhan Holohan explores media representations of law and order in the context of notions of multi-culturalism and victim-centred politics. Two high profile cases - the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the US trial of the British au-pair, Louise Woodward - are examined. Holohan argues that the stories built up around Woodward and Lawrence - the organization of public discourse around a sacrificial figure - have contributed to exclusionary patterns of social order. The book offers a perceptive account of what makes some criminal legal cases prone to scrutiny and spectacle and provides a vivid illustration of the presence of power relations in legal decisions. In conclusion, the author draws on the model of the Macpherson report to propose a more inclusive form of social and legal judgement that takes into account social inequalities.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9781138357532
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1138357537
Udg. Dato:
31 jan 2022
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
251mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
31 jan 2022
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